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The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet::Mozilla has announced the release of an update to its Firefox browser. In version number 118, users will find a significant innovation - a built-in translator

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

For me it's popping up all the time and although I guess I understand why they did it, I absolutely hate it. I don't want translations since I speak the different languages of the sites I visit fluently. Getting popups because I speak different languages is intrusive.

[–] Kerfuffle 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm sure there's a way to disable it, even if you have to go into about:config

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Before doing that I'd try defining language preferences in regular config. If they implemented it smart, they wouldn't offer languages you know.

[–] Kerfuffle 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The languages I might want to see aren't necessarily the ones I know. People who are learning languages might set that (I did for the language I'm learning, anyway).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So set whatever you want to see. Am not sure what's your point. That setting tells site which of the languages you'd like to see and if they support it, it should be used. Didn't see any sites use these apart from CMS I wrote.

[–] Kerfuffle 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe I misunderstood you but my point was if it interpreted the language preferences I set in the normal config as "knowing" the languages I added and didn't offer translations, that wouldn't necessarily be what I want.

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